The eager cry doth rend my breast,

And on end stands every hair,

When I hear the godless vaunting

Of unholy men! May Até

Fang them in her hopeless snare!

Messenger.

The sixth a sober man, a seer of might,

Before the Homoloidian gate stands forth,[n33]

And speaks harsh words against the might of Tydeus,

Rating him murderer, teacher of all ill